Philosophy has (once again) been identified as among the “Strongest Programs” at UNC.

Iskra Fileva discusses “Character and its Discontents” on The Opinion Pages of the NY Times, here:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/character-and-its-discontents/

Fifth year graduate student Jim Sias has recently won the prestigious 2012 Tanner Teaching Assistants Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

The Chapel Hill Philosophy Outreach Program has won an Award from theAmerican Philosophical Association to support our efforts to bring philosophy out into the community.

More info about events and happenings in the department and the philosophical community at large: http://www.facebook.com/UNCPhilosophy

Professor Bill Lycan was interviewed on “The State of Things,” today on WUNC (91.5 FM), to discuss the subject of consciousness (Thursday, Sept. 22, at 12:06 p.m.)  Visit http://wunc.org/programs/tsot/ for more information, including archives of past programs.

Follow us @UNCPhilOutreach to learn about various outreach initiatives and philosophical happenings in and around Chapel Hill.  Those without twitter accounts can still read the tweets by visiting twitter.com/UNCPhilOutreach.

A new fund to provide undergraduates with support to attend conferences, study abroad, develop language skills, or pursue other special opportunities. Thanks to a very generous gift from James and Eleanor Lesher, we now have a new endowment to fund … Read more

Information available HERE.